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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Some Sub-Related Stuff Around The 'Net

Last week, I blogged about my old shipmate taking command of USS Cheyenne (SSN 773). Being the new guy on the block, it looks like they're sticking him with all the pain-in-the-butt VIP stuff, as shown by this story of his ship hosting some actors from the TV show Lost.

Rontini has a couple of fascinating pictures, here and here, of how the Japanese Navy does out-of-the-water maintenance on their submarines without a drydock. Here's one of the pictures:

Lastly, we have reports from Groton of some idiots who defaced the "Submarine Capital Of The World" sign just off I-95. (Video of a news story is here.) The anti-war vandals splashed yellow paint on the sign and also painted "F**k War" in white near the stern:

6 Comments:

I recall some protesters showing up outside EB shipyard back in the mid 70's. They made the mistake of standing parrallel to the main gate as it opened for lunch. Anyone who was ever there in that time frame knows you'd get run over in a heartbeat. Those yardbirds were nuts!

Once the initial surge died down you couldn't find any protesters. Reminded me of a flood tide coming in and washing the beach clean.

Well, ya scooped me, Bubblehead, I was going to blog this - seeing that this happened in my backyard... kudos to you.

I've lived here off and on nearly my entire life, and I have many relatives in the area. The sign rarely gets vandalized.

In fact, it was just recently "overhauled" a few years ago from the 616/640 silhouette to the Nautilus style it is now. It's a very nice tribute to the old SSN 571.

But more importantly, when they catch the sonzabitches that did this, they ought to get sentenced to one year of... community service. Doing what, you may ask? Serving coffee and donuts to the service members at the The Pat Tillman Memorial USO station at Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan. Oh, and with a big placard with what they did hanging around their necks, as well.

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I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)